The Geiger counter kept beeping, and the radiation index continued to increase. Fortunately, the protective clothing worn by the boy was still intact, otherwise the radiation here could kill him instantly.
“It’s such a big thruster, but it’s just been hollowed out. Those men from the Science and Technology Association are so stingy that they come here to plunder those technological creations at every turn.”
The young man looked at it. There was a huge spaceship ruin in front of him. He looked at the empty thruster nozzle on the ruins and cursed the men of the Science and Technology Association in his heart. Those guys were almost cutting off the life security of people like them. You, a scavenger, picked up No matter how many things are picked up, will the grave-digging troops with science and technology know how to find many things? Others have finished digging, and when you arrive after all your hard work, there is nothing left.
The boy just walked from the thruster position into the ruins of the spaceship. He turned on the night vision function of his protective suit and began to explore inside the ruins. He walked and stopped inside the empty ruins. I tried to find the technological creations in this ruin that the Science and Technology Association had not yet discovered.
However, he didn't find much. He only found a few batteries that had been used by technology. However, these gadgets could not be reused because the radiation had damaged their structure.
"Shit! Those damned pieces of shit from science and technology!"
The boy looked at several completely unusable batteries in his hands and cursed angrily. At this moment, a sound of footsteps suddenly came from From in front of him, as three red light spots appeared from the darkness, one was wearing a red robe, with mechanically modified limbs that even the robe could not cover.
"Flesh, are you talking about us?"
The emotionless mechanical sound came from that thing, which made the young man extremely frightened. He looked at the things in front of him in fear. Things, the priests of the Science and Technology Association, are the most frightening things in this world. They are more frightening than those beasts. These guys can't even make the dead fall into silence.
There is a saying in this world that if you meet the priest of the Science and Technology Association, it is better to meet the beast in the wilderness directly. At least you can get real death from the mouth of the beast.
"My lords, I am just a little scavenger. Why do the adults of the Science and Technology Association care about me, a humble person who is insane due to radiation sickness and is not even suitable to be a servitor?"
The young man looked at these tentacle monsters in front of him, and he immediately gave in. He didn't want to turn into the mechanical transformation people he had seen in the city. Thinking of this, he suddenly recalled the stories of those transformation people. The eyes are like a corpse.
The Science and Technology Association will indeed use corpses as servitors, but they will also use living people to do so. These inhumane guys do not regard civilians like them as human beings at all. They are just a group of machines with oil flowing in their bodies.
After the people from the Science and Technology Association heard what the boy said, they all stopped what they were doing. The implant of one of the members of the Science and Technology Association scanned the boy, and then they continued to walk towards the boy.
"Physical body, there is not much radiation on your body. Your protective suit is very complete. You have not been affected by radiation. According to the Civilian Expropriation Act, you have been requisitioned by us, and your body will be With our transformation, we are closer to the Machine God.”
The mechanical priest who scanned the boy said this while walking towards the boy.
“Shit!”
The boy looked at the mechanical priest in front of him, and he repeated again a sentence that his father often scolded. He had asked his father before, this What do words mean?
His father told him that it means the excrement of an ancient animal that only exists in legends. It is a word that can be used to curse, but neither his father nor he has seen it. That kind of animal, I don’t know why the feces of an animal can also be used to curse people.
The young man looked at the mechanical priest in front of him. He already knew his fate. He would be transformed by this group of people into a mechanical zombie that was neither human nor ghost. He did not want this kind of thing. Fate, he felt cruel and took out his weapon without any hesitation.
In this world, civilians can have their own weapons. The technological masters who manage this world will not care about this at all. They don't care that civilians have their own weapons, because those weapons cannot be used to overthrow them.
After the boy took out his weapon again, the mechanical priests of the Science and Technology Association did not step back. They looked at the simple firearm in the boy's hand and did not think that it would hurt them at all. In their opinion, if that thing were to shoot at them, there would be a high probability that it would explode directly.
"Bless me, bless me. If you can go back alive this time, I will bring you the best engine oil to maintain it."
The young man looked at the firearm in his hand. , thinking crazily in his heart, he was completely desperate. He didn't think he could escape from the hands of these mechanical tentacle monsters. He knew that the gun in his hand was like the armor of those mechanical priests. It's like a toy in a child's hand.
But he wants to live, and he must live. His father, who has radiation sickness, still needs him to support him. There is no way he will die here. If he dies, the father who has raised him for so many years will starve to death. At home.
"Bang!"
As if he heard his prayer, after he pulled the trigger of the weapon in his hand, the firearm that was modified from a weapon that was unknown many years ago actually fired like this. , he did not explode, the chemical energy ammunition was activated in the gun chamber, and its warhead flew towards the mechanical priest.
“Ding!!”
An unexpected thing happened. The bullet actually penetrated the head of the mechanical priest, which made the mechanical priest’s companion and The young man was shocked together. The mechanical priests were surprised that the simple firearm could actually penetrate their armor. The young man was surprised that he clearly aimed at the chest, so why did he hit the head?
Quiet, eerie silence, except for the sound of guns penetrating armor, still echoing in the empty space, everyone stopped.
"Plop!"
This weird silence didn't end until the mechanical priest's body fell heavily to the ground. The young man also took advantage of the mechanical priests who were still stunned and used his fastest weapon. He ran into the darkness among the ruins at high speed. He didn't know why the gun could penetrate the armor of the Mechanic Priest, but he knew that he seemed to be able to survive, as long as he could get rid of the Mechanic Priests behind him.
"The Human Federation colonial world, the mining world, Icarus 9."
At the same time, in the orbit of this world, the Sun Fortress was parked on the planet. On the synchronous orbit, Wang Ming looked at the yellow planet outside the window. He suddenly discovered a very interesting thing. The mining industry in this world was actually still operating. It could be seen from the black smoke on the side of the planet's continent. , that is the black smoke emitted when the refinery is operating.
Human civilization in this world actually still exists, and they are still doing the work they did ten thousand years ago. "It seems there are still our compatriots in this world."
Wang Ming looked at the yellow world and said to Hu Jin beside him. The industries in this world are still operating, which means that there is still a relatively complete human race in this world. civilization, at least they are still mining, right?
“I hope it won’t be another crazy federal world.”
Hu Jin looked at Wang Ming, and he thought of the Shute world, sometimes an incomplete federal world, In fact, it is more reassuring than a complete federal world, at least because of technological regression and other reasons, the human empire that they could not resist forcefully took them back.
"Probably not. They don't have anything like a planetary defense fleet. The void of this galaxy is empty, and there are no man-made objects flying."
Wang Ming listened to Hu Jin's words and smiled at him, showing a reassuring smile. The scan of this galaxy had been completed by the fleet the moment it entered the galaxy. There was no man-made weapon in this galaxy. There are only some asteroids orbiting in the void.
"Let's go, let's take a look at that human civilization. It's best to recover the world peacefully."
Wang Ming patted Hu Jin on the shoulder, and then walked to the airdrop deck. Although It is said that the 21st Legion does not want to fight against human civilization anymore, but if human civilization has the same attitude as Shu Te about this matter, then Wang Ming would not mind taking back the world by force.
The airdrop pods fell to the ground like meteors, and their landing site happened to be the largest ruins in the world, the ruins of the ancient battlefield between the Human Federation and the Iron Man.
“Ha…, ha…, we didn’t catch up! They didn’t catch up!”
The young man ran among the ruins. He looked back from time to time. He did not see the mechanical priests who were chasing him. This made him feel lucky. He was not killed by these inhuman things, but from He escaped from their hands, which must be the first time in this world.
At this moment, the young man suddenly saw something in the sky. It was a huge meteor group, and the huge meteor group was falling towards where he was.
"It's over, I'm dead today..."
Looking at the falling stars in the sky, the young man felt desperate again. It was obvious that he had just escaped those meteors. The mechanical priest is chasing him, and now, these huge meteors are falling from the sky. This is because he must not die.
“Kakaka…”
At this moment, there was a sudden sound behind him. He turned around and saw that the scene behind him almost scared him out of his wits. Among the ruins, he saw two people wearing red robes. The figure was dancing with its metal limbs like those of arthropods, rushing towards his position quickly.
"It's over. Misfortunes never come singly. This time I am completely over."
The young man looked at the two figures in red robes and silently pressed the muzzle of the gun to his chin. No matter what happens this time, it seems that he is definitely finished. Give yourself a break and maybe die a little easier.
Just when the young man was about to give himself a good time, the figures of the two mechanical priests suddenly stopped. They all looked up to the sky, as if they saw something that shocked them. They actually slowed down. He slowly backed away. For these inhumane guys, most things in this world would not be able to have such a big shock to them.
“Is it a shooting star? They are also afraid of death.”
The young man watched the movements of the two mechanical priests, and he also looked up at the sky. He thought it was because those meteors were about to fall, which made the mechanical priests feel scared. But when he looked up, he also knew why those priests felt scared. .
A huge metal object like a house sprayed tail flames and slowly fell to the ground. The young man dared to swear to his dying father on the hospital bed that he had never seen such a big thing in his life. The aircraft, even those from the Science and Technology Society, cannot be this big.
The aircraft slowly landed between him and the Mechanic-Priest. The Mechanic-Priest and he both looked at the aircraft. They both wanted to know what that thing was?
And just when they were looking at the aircraft, the aircraft actually opened slowly. After the huge hatch fell on the yellow ground, causing a splash of flying sand and rocks, a huge figure appeared with Several smaller figures slowly walked out of the aircraft.
“It seems that the civilization of this world is not well preserved.”
Hu Jin looked at the young man wearing protective clothing that had been patched countless times, and he said to Wang Ming beside him.
"Put on your helmet, the radiation index in this place is very high."
Wang Ming did not answer Hu Jin's words. The two mechanical priests he looked at in red robes, Then he explained to Hu Jin that the radiation index here was very high and asked him to put on a helmet. Although the New Astartes had undergone twenty-two plus five surgeries, the radiation dose here could still make them They felt slightly uncomfortable, but the metal skin could still protect them.
“Oh, okay, hey, isn’t this the Mechanicus? How could there be a Mechanicus in this world?”
Hu Jin put on his helmet after hearing Wang Ming’s words, Zhou Heng, who was next to Hu Jin, didn't care about the radiation at all. He looked at the two mechanical priests in red robes and asked Wang Ming with a puzzled look on his face.
"It should be the ones from the Mechanicus who used the subspace navigation fleet without a navigator. I didn't expect them to come so far away."
Wang Ming heard Zhou He thought about Heng's words for a moment, and then replied to Zhou Heng. The distance between this world and Mars is extremely far. It is absolutely impossible for the Empire's Mechanicus to reach here. The only explanation is that in this world, There had been a landing of a pre-Imperial Mechanicum exploration fleet.